Black Blizzard (manga)
Black Blizzard (Japanese: 黒い吹雪, Hepburn: Kuroi Fubuki) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and published by Hinomaru Bunko in November 1956. It is about two convicts who are handcuffed together and escape after the train they are being escorted on crashes. Written by Tatsumi in twenty days, it is considered to be one of the first full-length gekiga works.
| Black Blizzard | |
The original cover of Black Blizzard, showing the escaped convicts | |
| 黒い吹雪 (Kuroi Fubuki) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Crime noir |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| Published by | Hinomaru Bunko |
| English publisher | |
| Published | November 1956 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Black Blizzard was published in North America by Drawn & Quarterly—in the style of a pulp paperback—on April 13, 2010. The manga's opening sequence was included in Tatsumi, an animated film based on the author's works, in 2011. Reception towards the manga has been positive regarding its style, but the crude art caused critics to be mixed. Manga scholar Ryan Holmberg has called Black Blizzard an unsolicited adaptation of Kazuo Shimada's "Black Rainbow".